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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬
lymanstoneky
This article correctly and powerfully documents the political pressures in the CDC.It mysteriously downplays the fact that the reason CDC was so easy to push around is they flagrantly ignored
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Stoic in the Mountains
stoicin
For now I walk to work and back, incorporating time daily to #flaneur and reflect. Pondering my choice to leave country living for the city and @nntaleb points on assymetric
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Justin Lessler
JustinLessler
While I 100% agree with @DrTomFriden's skepticism about herd immunity kicking in at 20-30%, the logic of this statement is wrong. You can have a >50% attack rate if herd
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David Fickling
davidfickling
I keep thinking of this quote from Frank Snowden, about the way epidemics exploit the underlying pathologies of the societies they infect: Look at the prominence of aged care workers
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Jenny B. 🇸🇪 #UsforThem
jblovatt
1/7 Prof Heneghan to Govt Science & Technology Committee, 17/9: 'For acute respiratory pathogens there are more people with other infections on board than Covid. One of the key things
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Chris Masterjohn
ChrisMasterjohn
Here's my interview with Gabriela Gomes on herd immunity and COVID-19.https://youtu.be/egN8oXFBTWk Gabriela Gomes is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Strathclyde Glasgow and corresponding author of the rece
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Sebastian Huluban
HulubanS
Great, but it was Joseph II that transformed ‘militar grenze’ into a sophisticated intelligence rampart : “The sanitary cordon that Emperor Joseph I built along the Habsburg-Ottoman frontier was one
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Vinay Prasad MD MPH
VPrasadMDMPH
The conversation we really need to have is on Twitter COVID opportunismWhy do so many scientists with only a passing affiliation with ID, pandemic response, drug approval, drug trials, vaccine
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Boston City Archives
ArchivesBoston
In 1942, @HealthyBoston published this chart showing Boston's history of fighting epidemics from 1725 to 1942. The chart shows especially deadly outbreaks of smallpox, cholera, and influenza. @universalhub @HUBhistory Boston's
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Kate
Asilverlining20
Thread: 1) Massive PCR testing campaigns are resulting in the quarantine of healthy individuals, temporary business & school closures, mask mandates, & unnecessary panic and fear. Damage is being done
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Indi
emerald_indi
Dolores Cannon's extensive work is full of insights about our current world. The following dialogue is from "The Convoluted Universe", Book 3."D-“Are there going to be similar disasters in many
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Pavan Srinath
zeusisdead
Here's a Twitter thread on published & upcoming podcast episodes on #COVID19, that I've had the privilege to record and learn from. 1. @kiranshaw on how India is gearing up
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Justin Fox
foxjust
Here's my update of the famous NYC mortality-since-1805 chart, assuming deaths for the rest of the year are about normal In deaths per thousand the estimated mortality increase is the
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Andrew Bostom
andrewbostom
Coercive Covid-19(84) Mask-erade-American Lessons Unlearned From HONEST EPIDEMIOLOGISTS during the 1918 Flu Pandemic Era: Compulsory Mask wearing “did not show any influence on spread of influenza in those cities where
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Burnt-Out Case
BurntOutCase
What a chump the CDC Director is in his excuse making in this interview:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/what-happened-to-the-cdc-storied-disease-agency-takes-a-back-seat He minimizes the lost month of Feb due to CDC's botched t
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Pleuni Pennings
pleunipennings
1/ Yesterday I posed a question here on twitter after reading one of the daily updates by @bob_wachter (I love those updates!) The question was: why should the peak of
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